Comment by saghm

Taken literally, this question just misunderstands what the point of coding is for most companies. The point was never to maximize quality of software, but to make the most money. Coding being "solved" implies it was a problem, and for companies using this framing, the problem wasn't "my software isn't good enough", but "it takes too much time and/or money for me to make software". Viewed through this lens, the "solution" of removing as much need for expensive humans to make the software is almost entirely unrelated to the quality of the output; if companies with this mindset could have released software cheaper or faster at a reduced quality before AI, they almost certainly would have.

None of this is to say that I think this is a good thing, or even that it's necessarily an accurate viewpoint. Considering who decides how much to spend on LLM products in companies that are potential customers for the ones saying "coding has been solved", I do genuinely think this is what they mean though. It's of course nonsense to actual developers, but we're not the ones who they're talking to when they say this.